I was the late fall of 2001 and I was in Gothenberg Sweden with my friend Anna and the we were shopping. It was getting close to time for me to head back to the USA, to no job, to a house that needed to be cleaned out and sold and no other plans and I wasn't in the best mood. Anna allowed me to drag her into Madhatter records and endured me looking at 7" records with covers of nude nuns, skulls...
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1913…1914…1915…1916…1917Distance, recordings in a little tin box, mystical and chirping. It’s Stiffs. Inc. The short lived masters of all that pre and post WW I advances in science and culture. It’s all Weimar republic, German Impressionism. Weird angles, drawn faces, white, white faces, you know the ones that haunt me so beautifully… jerky post war machinery, whispering intrusions i
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Soooo, last night I was at a show, Panic at the Disco and the Dresden Dolls, and during the Dolls set they Cover Baby one more Time, the audience of mostly pre-teens of course go crazy, and I start singing along. I understand what a piss take is, I understand taking something that is fluff and playing with it and I understand that a good song is a good song, and the messenger be damned. Of cour...
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Course of Empire, a monolithic sounding band from Texas, big sound, pounding beat (provided by 2 drummers, and not by machines), in that whole post-NIN thing, but still they had something slightly off kilter. They were dark, they were moody, there was this hint that there was something dark lurking on the other side, just waiting to swoop down and shatter the minds of those who would witness. O...
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I'm a Rockfiend, but the house I grew up in wasn't filled with music. Sure we had an old record player and a bunch of cheap records, kids records, folk albums, and a bunch of my moms 1001 Strings albums. We listened to NPR sometimes, and books on tape more when we were in the car. My Mom has been a Johnny Cash fan for a long time, but she never over played his music, and that's ok, because it m...
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Note I wrote this a couple of years back, and never got around to writing about any of the bands.... no one seemed interested in this then, but I thought that someone here might dig it... it's not perfect, but I hope it's worth reading.‘This is the story of a transition period in American Rock and roll, of a changeling era which dashed by so fast that nobody knew much of what to make if it while
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I was in the 7th grade, sitting in my science class, it was biology and I hated it, when they made the announcement, the space shuttle challenger had exploded on lift off. If you were alive and compis mentes you likely recall where you were when you heard. It’s one of three events that I would like to believe my generation recall where they were at the time. The other two are the suicide of Kur.
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Some Velvet Morning....Glassy angelic vocals juxtiposed with the world weary whisky vocals perfections. There is something psychedelic about the song, there is something pop about it, and there is something dark and that's what I like... that is all....
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I got an e-mail the other day announcing that the newest issues of Ugly Things Magazine would be ready at the end of this month. For the uninitiated Ugly Things is a nice thick glossy fanzine that covers the world of ‘60’s psych, Wild ‘50’s rock, and early punk. It’s a well put together, trove of information, and reviews. Ugly Things comes out once every 12 or 14 months and it’s worth
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A few things that I am wondering about, and if they are kosher….Promoting:Bands (friends and those that I have worked with), records, my (now defunct) record label, my Podcast, or other music related products that I have an interest in?What do people think?
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